Joshua 5:4

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

This is the reason why Joshua circumcised them: all the males of the people who came out of Egypt, all the warriors, had died during the journey through the wilderness after they had come out of Egypt.

Cross References

Numbers 14:22

none of the people who have seen my glory and the signs that I did in Egypt and in the wilderness and yet have tested me these ten times and have not obeyed my voice

1 Corinthians 10:5

Nevertheless, God was not pleased with most of them, and they were struck down in the wilderness.

Deuteronomy 2:14

And the length of time we had traveled from Kadesh-barnea until we crossed the Wadi Zered was thirty-eight years, until the entire generation of warriors had perished from the camp, as the Lord had sworn concerning them.

Deuteronomy 2:16

“Just as soon as all the warriors had died off from among the people,

Joshua 5:3

So Joshua made flint knives and circumcised the Israelites at Gibeath-haaraloth.

Joshua 5:5

Although all the people who came out had been circumcised, yet all the people born on the journey through the wilderness after they had come out of Egypt had not been circumcised.